Stender

This appeal challenges a preliminary injunction requiring appellants, an immigration lawyer and law firm, to provide notice to certain clients that another lawyer who had been employed by the firm had resigned from the bar with disciplinary charges pending and was not authorized to practice law. Appellants contend the injunction should not have been granted because the statutes and rules they were alleged to have violated do not apply to them; the required notice was inaccurate and would cause harm to them and their clients; they were precluded from presenting evidence in their defense by their obligation not to violate attorney-client privilege and their . clients’ rights to privacy; and the events underlying the allegations against them were no longer occurring and unlikely to occur in the future. We will affirm.

*620 STATEMENT OF THE CASE AND FACTS

Martin Resendez Guajardo was the president, treasurer, secretary and sole shareholder of an immigration law practice originally named “Martin Resendez Guajardo, A Professional Corporation.” In 2008, Guajardo resigned from the California State Bar with disciplinary charges pending, 1 making him ineligible to practice law,…